Posted on 09/07/2016 11:34:29 AM PDT by kimtom
One important task of science is to develop testable theories. And one important characteristic of a theory is the ability to falsify it with evidence gathered from experimentation. Predictions should be able to be made that would verify the theory if those predictions play out, or falsify the theory if the evidence contradicts the theory. If, for example, one theorizes that gravity is a force that causes objects with much larger mass, if unimpeded, to pull objects with smaller mass towards it, one can make the prediction that if he drops an apple from his hand, the larger mass of the Earth will pull that apple towards it. He can then test that prediction using many objects and many settings to verify or falsify predictions..........
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-David B. Kitts, late evolutionary geologist
Theories aren’t tested.
Hypotheses, derived from theories, are tested.
If hypotheses don’t support the theory, the theory is discarded/replaced.
excellent point!!
Or, rely on unsubstantiated myths
“Or, rely on unsubstantiated myths”
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e.g. Darwinism.
The intermediates discovered and paraded in the last 150 years of discovery just doesn't get everyone over the top on supporting the theory.
every time I see an evolution thread 9n the internet it tends to become an argument about the meaning of theory and hypothesis. I even.threw out an online definition of theory once and got slammed cor getting it wrong.
Anyone read Darwin’s Doubt?
Another interesting book on the topic is “Darwin’s Black Box.”
Theories are tested hypotheses.
This is why some call it the hypothesis of evolution.
Theories are tested hypotheses.
This is why some call it the hypothesis of evolution.
OK, I’ll stir the pot.
Misconception: “Gaps in the fossil record disprove evolution.”
Response: The fact that some transitional fossils are not preserved does not disprove evolution. Evolutionary biologists do not expect that all transitional forms will be found and realize that many species leave no fossils at all. Lots of organisms don’t fossilize well and the environmental conditions for forming good fossils are not that common. So, science actually predicts that for many evolutionary changes there will be gaps in the record.
Also, scientists have found many transitional fossils. For example, there are fossils of transitional organisms between modern birds and their theropod dinosaur ancestors, and between whales and their terrestrial mammal ancestors.
A key failing is where he writes "Yet this prediction has not been verified in the fossil record, effectively falsifying Darwinian Evolution."
You cannot falsify a hypothesis by pointing to a lack of evidence but only by providing positive evidence that the hypothesis is false. Find a 3.8 Billion year old human skeleton, and the hypotheses relating to the evolutionary origin of humans is knocked on its can. But no such evidence has been found.
99.9% of all matter in the Universe is in the plasma state, which is electrical in nature. Interstellar space is alive with plasma “Birkland” currents which are the long, tenuous luminous strands between galaxies and comprising supernovas called “filaments” and which also comprise the galactic arms, which make galaxies into gigantic dynamos. The Sun is a giant ball of plasma and is highly electrically charged.
The “Solar Wind” is no wind, it is an electric current that powers the Aurora Borealis and various energetic belts surrounding Earth and protecting it magnetically from life destroying cosmic rays. It is also known that gene mutation is amplified in electro-magnetic fields, many articles on this are a mouse click away.
So, if there is belch in the Sun’s plasma furnace, or if a large comet, with an electrified tail or charge differential against that of Earth, swings by or impacts Earth, there is going to be a huge discharge that, like the dreaded A-bomb Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) is gonna doink with genetic material globally. This could be an engine for large scale, rapid genetic mutation, fast enough to be an undetected microscopic blip in the geological strata.
The science mafia doesn’t like to talk about galactic or intergalactic electrical phenomena, but there is much ongoing private experimentation and research that is accessible by unprejudiced citizens. Electric Universe Theory finds no need for such fantasies as “black hole”, “big bang”, ‘dark matter”, or “dark energy” Very large scale electro-gravitic forces easily explain the many anomalies in galactic rotation and cosmic background radiation that led to those hallucinated theories. Start here:
www.thunderbolts.info
No. The concept is correctly called the theory of evolution. A theory provides a conceptual framework that one can use to derive testable hypotheses. The conceptual framework is built on the basis of evidence gathered from scientific experimentation and observation; it is an explanation that best ties together the known facts. Theory is also constantly refined as experimental/observational data provides more detail.
In the real world, it works like this: the theory of evolution indicates that I should expect to see continuous change over time within species. Since I am a molecular biologist, I look for that change at the smallest level, in the DNA, where it can be observed without necessarily changing the appearance or behavior of the organism at all. In the field of virology, evolutionary principles are used to determine where viruses came from and how they spread. So if you were to catch Zika, we would be able to tell whether you caught it from someone who went to Brazil or someone who went to Africa--and even which part of Brazil or Africa they had visited--because of changes that we predict using the theory of evolution.
Evolution is religion and it can’t be falsified.
Your logic is terribly flawed. We have observed evidence of life in the Cambrian era.
Yes, at least evolution is a theory. Compare natural versus artificial selection.
In 19th century England when “bull and bear baiting” was outlawed, `English bulldogs’ were bigger and lankier, and had tails—much different than bulldogs we know today.
Dog breeders decided the (fierce) English bulldog would benefit from being downsized, so they tried breeding them with pugs, theorizing that the result would be a smaller, hopefully docile dog suitable for more than just butchers’ families. (They were not fought one against another as a rule until they were bred with terriers.)
These breeders’ hypothesis or belief in animal husbandry was correct resulting over many years in the English bulldog we know today. But the original version still exists.
While this animal husbandry theory was being tested in England the breed was brought `as is’ to this country where it remains very much as it was in England, used mostly in agrarian settings, `frozen in time’ as it were, although the breed was also subject to its environment and the needs of its American owners for stock guarding, vermin control and pets.
So we have both versions today, along with many permutations, and all of this occurred over a hundred or so years; at the same time, all the different breeds came about through artificial and natural selection over the last 500-1000 years.
Why don’t we ever read about Jesus’ dog?
The concept is correctly called the theory of evolution. A theory provides a conceptual framework that one can use to derive testable hypotheses.
So, in a very real way, we’re both right.
You idiots should stop writing about things you know nothing about. NRL, NASA, NSF and DOE have large program to study "galactic or intergalactic electrical phenomena" as you call it.
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